[Photos by Daniel Krieger] Every year, roughly 80,000 travelers from at least ninety countries pass through the doors of HI New York City, the largest hostel in the Americas. Each week, Narratively’s Daniel Krieger will spend a few hours in the… Continue Reading →

When Tom became sick in the winter of 2003, we revisited the subject of quantum entanglement. It was early winter, and we sat in his small, comically messy apartment in Toronto, surrounded by jagged lightning-bolt towers of piled books. Dead… Continue Reading →

A nation is either strong or weak. A country is either bravely independent or cravenly beholden. You are either a follower of this school of thought or that one. Unlike many philosophers and politicians, the German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz… Continue Reading →

[Illustration by Casey Roonan] On a spring afternoon in the late 1850s, an upbeat tune from a piano spills out from a curious brick house with a sky-blue chimney. A young lumberjack walking up Harlow Street in Bangor, Maine, stares… Continue Reading →